John Marley's craggy face, cement-mixer voice and shock of white hair were familiar to stagegoers from the 1930s onward. Marley started out as one-half of a comedy team but soon found that his true metier was drama. In films on an infrequent basis since 1941, Marley stepped up his moviemaking activities in the mid-1960s, playing such sizable roles as Jane Fonda's father in "Cat Ballou" in 1965. He won a Venice Film Festival award for his performance as a miserable middle-aged husband in John Cassavetes' "Faces" in 1968 and was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Ali MacGraw's blue-collar father in "Love Story". Marley's most unforgettable role was in "The Godfather" in 1972 in which, as movie mogul Lou Woltz, he wakes up to find himself sharing his bed with a horse's head.
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